the website is www.setlovefree.com. (You avoid those other "love" sites). You can write your congresswoman/man and give them your opinion...apparently Kay Bailey didn't care for my opinion that as a Southwest Airlines shareholder I think Southwest should move its headquarters to Chicago (it has more flights per day out of there anyway), and let Dallas understand what it costs to live in a city and state without the benefit of a Southwest. But what do I know...I just lived in Kansas for five years.

Why not just get the restriction lifted to Ohare like the Albama congressional delegation did. Then Everyone from Dallas would fly to Chicago and y'all could get the airport tax money instead of Houston

The Wright Amendment is one of the most blatantly protectionist laws ever passed for the sole benefit of one corporation (American Airlines) at the expense of all North Texas residents and visitors.

Well, a lot of political hacks also benefit... but that's a whole 'nother story.

Wright was passed to help an airport help the entire Dallas/Fort Worth community. When D/FW opened, Fort Worth closed their local airport, but Southwest absolutely refused to move from Love, thus the amendment. American holds an 84% monopoly at D/FW, while Southwest holds a 96% monopoly at Love. Protectionist for who?
Besides, if Wright is repealed, the Love Field Master Plan will be rewritten and Southwest's share will drop as gates are given to other airlines.

The repeal of Wright helps no one but Southwest's stubborn board of directors. Love is an antiquated airport. Let it go!

You got to admire the "free-market" folks for their recklessness. In calling the Wright amendment "protectionist" and "anti-competitive", they show their ignorance of history, economics and business strategy all in one go.

The AIRLINES were deregulated, not AIRPORTS. Unfortunately, airports are too expensive to be built entirely by the private sector. So, governments pitch in with land deals, tax holidays etc. This is precisely what happened with D/FW. The two cities needed to establish a world-class hub airport to attract businesses. So, they guaranteed its survival by agreeing to close down or curb the two smaller airports.

I'd like to see SW on the other side of their fuel hedge program. Don't get me wrong, its a great company and is well run. But the legacy airlines are no naive schoolboys either. Running an airline is a brutal business and its only a matter of time before SW has to deal with the same issues - pension obligations, fuel costs, huge capital investments...